Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Formative Feedback Record for mask project

Formative Feedback Record for mask project


Self-Neg Planner: Mask

Self-Neg Planner: Mask


Self-negotiated project – Mask: Final Output

Self-negotiated project – Mask: Final Output

The story is based in the story 2



Self-Neg Proposal Form: Mask


Self-Neg Proposal Form: Mask



Self-negotiated project – Mask: Test shot and ideas.


Self-negotiated project – Mask: Test shot and ideas.
Will apply some strange angle shot and close up.
Maybe a high angle shot with something reflective.
Pin camera from different object.
Shoot (Hiding) behind something.
Use reflection to give hints.
Shoot though a window.
Close up with wide angle lens.



Self-negotiated project – Mask: Story and Concept


Creative Applications Project – Self-negotiated project – Mask: Story and Concept


Story 1:-

Mask to be use:-

1, famous motor racer
2, Lord Sugar
3, Mr Bean
4, Brad Pitt
5, Angelina Jolie

What kind of mask?
Rubber mask
Paper mask
Decision: Home bake paper mask, as rubber is too expensive, and the paper mask on the market is not worth to get.

Theme & Style of the moving image:-

Sad
Romance
Use warm colour and dim light

Scene:-

Church – St. Mary DeCasro
Riverside near DeMotford University
Outside a coffee shop
Room in a house
Entrance of a house
Inside an office
Outside a shop

Character:-

Three main characters –
One main male – named Louis
One main Female – named Leona
One male – Louis’s friend

Equipment:-

DSLR camera with video recording function
LED lighting
Rode Mic
Fig Rig
Tripod
Rail/track

Background music:

Partitia in E by Bach
Air in the G string by Bach

Dietetic sound effect:

Door close
Car start up
Phone ring
Phone key pad sound
Clock ticking sound

Story:

Louis go out from his house. He jump in his car, sit down and look at the mirror. He open his bag and get some mask out. He chose and wear a motor racer’s mask.
Louis enter the office and go to his room. After he enter his room, he sit down, take a rest and then remove his mask. He drink some coffee, look at the clock and take his bag out. He select Lord Sugar’s mask and wear it. He pick up a phone and tell his staff to come in his room.
Time pass by, is 12 o’clock.
Louis remove his mask and get his mobile out. He ring someone and have a conversation. He finish the call and pick up the bag and warp to the Mr Bean’s mask.
In the coffee shop, he meet his friend and they having a good time.
After the meeting, he go back to the office and put Lord Sugar’s mask back on.
It is 5 o’clock.
Louis get up and leave the office. He enter a church and sit down on a bench. He remove his mask and crying – he is acting as himself.
After a while, he pick up his bag and wear Brad Pitt’s mask.
He enter his house and go to the kitchen. He see his wife – Leona is wearing Angelina Jolie’s mask.

 Story 2:-

Mask to be use:-

1, Johnny Depp
2, David Beckham
3, Victoria Beckham
4, Mr Bean
5, Cheryl Cole

What kind of mask?

Rubber mask
Paper mask
Decision: Home bake paper mask, as rubber is too expensive, and the paper mask on the market is not worth to get.

Theme & Style of the moving image:-

Sad
Romance
Use warm colour and dim light

Scene:-

Riverside near DeMorford University
Outside a coffee shop
Dining room in a house
Room in a house
Entrance of a house

Character:-

Two characters –
One main male – named Louis
One main Female – named Leona

Equipment:-

DSLR camera with video recording function
LED lighting
Rode Mic
Fig Rig
Tripod
Rail/track

Background music:

Air in the G string by Bach

Dietetic sound effect:

Door close
Phone ring
Phone key pad sound

Story:

Leona is sleeping in bed. Her mobile phone ring, she pick it up and talk. After a while, she pick up a pen and write down time and place. Then she put down the mobile phone and continues to sleep.
Leona is facing a mirror, she tidy herself and put a mask (Cheryl Cole) on.
She leave her house.
She meet Louis out a coffee shop, Louis is wearing a mask (Mr Bean).
Louis ask Leona to wait him for a minute and he enter the coffee shop. When he come back, he got another mask (Johnny Depp) on his face.
They walk in a riverside with no conversation.
It is evening time.
Louis walk Leona home, she invite him to enter the house.
Louis sit on the dining room and Leona go to the toilet. When she come out, she is wearing a different mask (Victoria Beckham). She look as Louis, he is wear another mask (David Beckham) as well. She sit down and they have a good conversation.

Research: Wong Kar-wai and Film - In the Mood for Love (2000)



Research: Wong Kar-wai and Film - In the Mood for Love (2000)
Wong Kar-wai – a male film director who born in July 1956 in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1963. He graduated from the Department of Art and Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1980. In 1981 he participate to a trainees program of a TV channel in script writing and video direct, and he began to write script for drama. He had nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best script writing. In 1988 he wrote and directed his first film called "As Tears Go By" and had won a lot of film awards and nomination. In Hong Kong, he had known as "extraordinary talented and new generation of directors”. Besides every film he made can be seem in any film awards ceremony around the world now.
Film research: In the Mood for Love (2000)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Writer: Kar Wai Wong
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu
Film story:
This is a story about the love and relationship. The story take place in Hong Kong at 1962. A newspaper editor Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and his wife moved into an apartment and at the same time another couple moved in next door to them, which are Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) and her husband. Su is a secretary in a trading company and her nusband often travel and away from home because of his job. Besides Chow Mo-Wan's wife is in the same saturation as Su’s husband. Since Su and Chow are lonely while their partner always travel away from home, they become a good friend and get to know each other. Gradually Chow and Su found they have many common interests and hobbies, such as reading novel etc... One day, they suddenly discovered that their partner have affair with each other of their partner. Therefore they get together to face this reality but after a while, they fall in love...
Film deconstruction (first 5 mins):


Use few sentence to give the audience a hint of story.
Use colourful frame to draw attention, the character look around to show she is not familiar with the place.


Use props and cloth to explain the time, background of characters.
Shot through a window to give a realistic 3rd person view.
Use a narrow stair and dim light to show the character’s loneliest.


Pinning camera from a bright light to the character’s face to attract audience to focus on his facial expression.
Use position to show the relationship and conversion.


Montage two scene and crossover the conversion to tell that they move in at the same time.


Use position of character to show a close relationship. (Use image to tell story)
But when Chow’s wife come, things change.


Su lean on the wall to reflect her sadness.
Chow come in, they are in the same track.


But at last he leave for good.
Finally, Su is with her husband and got a closer relationship.

Research: Wong Kar-wai and Film Fallen Angels (1995)



Research: Wong Kar-wai and Film Fallen Angels (1995)
Wong Kar-wai – a male film director who born in July 1956 in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1963. He graduated from the Department of Art and Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1980. In 1981 he participate to a trainees program of a TV channel in script writing and video direct, and he began to write script for drama. He had nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best script writing. In 1988 he wrote and directed his first film called "As Tears Go By" and had won a lot of film awards and nomination. In Hong Kong, he had known as "extraordinary talented and new generation of directors”. Besides every film he made can be seem in any film awards ceremony around the world now.
Film research: Fallen Angels (1995)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Writer: Kar Wai Wong
Cast: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro
"Fallen Angels" is probably discussing the relationship and the distance between people. In this film, the director has used a lot of close-up shot. General the close up shot is used to express or explain the character’s emotional and thinking, but it does not apply to this film. The director used a close up shot to explain the Indifferent of people.
In Fallen Angels, the character's face or body often occupy most part of the frame and with the use of wide angle lens, the audience can feel the strange and alienated of the characters. Likewise the two shot with wide angle lens have a similar effect – two character in the same scene but seem that they have no relationship at all. With the camera shake, mysterious lighting and background music, this film truly show the post-modem’s psychedelic feeling.


Film deconstruction:
Two shot/close up with a strange angle, cannot see the emotion of the character, but with the Black and white colour and juxtaposition to explain their relationship.
High angle shot with wide-angle lens to show the scene.
The lighting with the colour of the scene make a special effect.


Over shoulder shot with camera shake and fast walking – allow the audience to feel that the character is in hurry.
Shot through a window or door – make the audience as an observer and stalking the character.


Use the mirror to reflect the scene and character with motion. Different light source to show the different between her inner world and outside world.
Use juxtaposition to show the different between two worlds.
Wide angle close up on the face of the character to know she don’t care what happen beside herself.


She communicate people only when she needed, wide angle Medium close up in a corridor with juxtaposition.
Use mirror to reflect his loneliest (no one sit on the bus beside him).
Camera panning from different object.


Use camera angle to reflect the distance between people.
Use music and action to show her sadness.


No facial expression, but use colour tone, music and camera angle to show her emotion.
Use position and action to show the distance between people.

Research: The Most Sensual Getaway by Wai Man Teresa Leung


Research: The Most Sensual Getaway by Wai Man Teresa Leung

Wai Man Teresa Leung is a Hong Kong Video and photo artist. She Graduated in Fine art at 2004 and being select for entry at the Philippine Charriol Foundation 20th Anniversary Competition in 2005. She has been reward a MFA degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. Ever since, her work been exhibited in Hong Kong, Berlin and Sao Paulo. 




Introduction – Aim at beginning.
Use abstract image – puzzle for viewer.


When traffic pass the frame, viewer realized what it is on the screen.
From a quiet (no sound) environment, suddenly noise – it is disturbing but attractive.
And the lady sit next to the road, she is so quiet and enjoy herself – means she get used to this environment.


She is doing something have no relation with the scene, the viewer will keep asking: why?
But all of her action are related.


Again, different angle, next to the road, maybe it is no different inside or outside a house.
Rule of third and line across the scene.
Medium shoot show that she is alone.


And use action to tell that she is alone.
She sit peacefully in a noisily/bad environment, it is to reflect that the viewer are doing the same thing.





The Most Sensual Getaway from Teresa Leung on Vimeo.

Research: PAINT THE SKY WITH STARS by Jordan Saunders

Research: PAINT THE SKY WITH STARS by Jordan Saunders




Use a quote to give hint.

Starting with sky (abstract element) to interest viewer.


Put the character in the rule of third position, but with no other object on the frame, only a bright light to the face of character, so the viewer can focus on her face.
Then zoom out to the scene so that the viewer can see where she is but understand she is the main subject in the scene.


Use light and black and white colour to create a strange/horror atmosphere.
Timescale with no movement of the actor to explain she is “different” with others.


Slow shaking motion – she is in a bus.
Reflection from moving water – something interfering her.


Use still image to transparencies the character.
Use different people to wear mask to show she is not the only one, but she is the only one step forward.


Use costume to show the difference.
When she take the mask off, frame become colour – it is Semiotics.

PAINT THE SKY WITH STARS by Jordan Saunders can be found in:

Self-Negotiated Project - Mask

Self-Negotiated Project - Mask

This is a project of a SUMMATIVE assignment for course/module: PHVP1423 
Creative Application.
Project name: Self-Negotiated Project
Project title: Mask
Student Name: Chi Yan David Lam
Student Number: 505710
Course: FD Photo & Video Year 1 in Leicester College

Aim and task:

produce a piece of work, a single or series of video pieces no longer than 2 –

3 minutes that clearly shows a realisation of a conceptual idea applying a technical approach 

to explore a chosen theme.

Work must be a combination of still images and sound or still images, sound and 

Moving-image.